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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Pink covered wire for a girl, and fake tortoise-shell if you were a boy....grim....and if you had a squint - or a lazy eye, one lens covered with Elastoplast or Zinc oxide tape.
Not a good look was it?
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That was me Margaret (I had and still have a "Lazy eye")-sounds better than a squint! In our class it was me and Michael Quirk who had the elastoplast treatment, he was bullied really badly.
I also remember having a sort of red see through lens at one point. I was quite raffish of course -like a young Jack Sparrow (I had long hair and plaits back then). Only benefit was an afternoon out of school every so often for visits to the health center in Blackburn...
Once the treatment was over -by age 10 -the glasses had changed and were coloured plastic - very Edna Everidge. They never sat straight on my face as one lens was much heavier than the other. On all my school photos they were skewiff - didn't mind mum throwing them out on the tip to be honest.
I grew up thinking I was the ugly duckling - still haven't turned into a beautiful swan yet.
